Hi, John. If I may ask, what readers have you used? I am a bit surprised to hear what you say below, as I understood that Mobi and Epub were entirely different containers, though both use HTML/XHTML for their text. Epub is a zip file, basically, while Mobi is a .PRC Palm Pilot file. However that may be, I would be overjoyed if simple renaming would work, it would save tons of headaches, particularly on mobile platforms like the iDevices. Unfortunately, I cannot seem to get this to work on any of the three readers I have here. With Ibooks, Blio, and Nook, the reader simply refuses to load the renamed file. It's as if the file isn't there. There is no error, but the file, when I attempt to load it, simply disappears and is not visible in the list of books in either application. When using the file with Epub readers on the PC, particularly Kurzweil 1000 and Digital Editions, the file is not opened and I do get an error saying that the file is not in the correct format. If you would let us know which reader can do this, particularly if it's for mobile, it would be appreciated. Aman
On 12/11/12, Jon Pierson <joncpier...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I have had good luck just renaming the .mobi files to .epub. > If it doesn't work in all cases, I haven't seen a bad file yet doing this. > > Jon > > > > > ----- > Have you ever had a technical issue with JFW that went unanswered? Or is > your pet peave that one bug from years ago which has just never been > squashed? > Sign the Jaws "bugfix" petition at: > > http://hkc.im/Vu > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf > Of Aman Singer > Sent: Monday, December 10, 2012 8:47 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Reading .mobi files on the iPhone > > Hello. > I know of no utility that will let you accessibly read mobi files on iOs. > It > is, however, easily possible to convert mobi files to epub which can, of > course, be read in iBooks. The quickest and most private method of > conversion which I've seen is through caliber. Try > http://calibre-ebook.com/ and the manual for accessible conversions through > Calibre is at http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/cli/ebook-convert.html > I hope that's of use. > Aman > > On Nov 10, 2012, at 2:29 PM, Wil James <w...@wilanddenise.com> wrote: > >> I am loving reading .epub files with iBooks. I've recently >> accumulated a > bunch of .mobi files, but cannot find an app that will let me view them. >> >> Does anyone know of some kind of conversion utility that will make >> them > viewable in iBooks? >> >> >> >> Sent from Wil's iPhone 4S >> ---------- >> E-mail or iMessage: w...@wilanddenise.com >> Twitter: wiljames >> zellow: wilcjames >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" > Google Group. >> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. >> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" > Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
